A new play by Dorothy Lyman
Three generations of women meet upstate over President’s Day weekend to decide the fate of their family farm and its matriarch.
Upstate!
The Art of Watercolors
This 4 hour workshop will get you started on learning the magical world of watercolor.
Liz will teach you the most important basic techniques to start you off and get warmed up!
Then we will focus on learning how to control your watercolors to create both loose washes and fine details.
Beginner and intermediate watercolor painters are welcome.
Supplies are included but if you already have watercolor supplies (please bring them) especially brushes.
Fun day of learning and finding your new voice in art!
This workshop is 4 hours, from 11-4 with a break for snacking etc..
Watercolor Painting Workshop
Back by Popular Demand. Not Your Father’s Storytelling! Come join us for an exciting evening of tough, funny, poignant stories from some of NYC's and the Northeast region's most dynamic storytellers!!! Neil Intraub hosts an evening filled with Moth Grand Slam/Story Slam winners who have also been spotlighted on PBS’ Stories From the Stage.
Merryall Tales - Personal Storytelling
A new play by Dorothy Lyman
Three generations of women meet upstate over President’s Day weekend to decide the fate of their family farm and its matriarch.
Upstate!
Young students will learn theatre basics, as well as music and choreography. This class is highly recommended before participating in other TW Kids’ Programs.
Showcase Performance on June 7th.
Rising Stars: Introduction to Musical theatre (Ages 5-8)
The Merryall Center in New Milford, CT is now accepting submissions for Expressing Motherhood (Connecticut).
Expressing Motherhood is a stage show of personal stories, songs, and skits all about the journey of motherhood. Since 2008, moms have been sharing their stories at Expressing Motherhood performances across the country. Submissions from moms, dads, grandparents, and reflections about mothers are all welcome.
The show is built for the non-famous, non-published, and people who want to get out and express themselves. The average cast consists of ten people. Performers submit in advance and are chosen based on the power of their stories.
Submission deadline - June 30th, 2025. No auditions. Email Submissions to: aschuette@merryallcenter.org
Expressing Motherhood Call for Submissions
A new play by Dorothy Lyman
Three generations of women meet upstate over President’s Day weekend to decide the fate of their family farm and its matriarch.
Upstate!
Just in time for warmer weather! In this 2 hour workshop Andrea Dener will teach you how to properly create a beautiful, and useful, macrame plant hanger. You will leave this workshop with a ready to go planter and the knowledge of how to make more on your own! One clay pot is included with this workshop (plant not included). This workshop is $15 with an additional $15 materials fee paid to the instructor the day of class, cash or checks accepted!
Macrame Hanging Planter Workshop with Andrea Dener
Young students will learn theatre basics, as well as music and choreography. This class is highly recommended before participating in other TW Kids’ Programs.
Showcase Performance on June 7th.
Rising Stars: Introduction to Musical theatre (Ages 5-8)
The Merryall Center in New Milford, CT is now accepting submissions for Expressing Motherhood (Connecticut).
Expressing Motherhood is a stage show of personal stories, songs, and skits all about the journey of motherhood. Since 2008, moms have been sharing their stories at Expressing Motherhood performances across the country. Submissions from moms, dads, grandparents, and reflections about mothers are all welcome.
The show is built for the non-famous, non-published, and people who want to get out and express themselves. The average cast consists of ten people. Performers submit in advance and are chosen based on the power of their stories.
Submission deadline - June 30th, 2025. No auditions. Email Submissions to: aschuette@merryallcenter.org
Expressing Motherhood Call for Submissions
Join our FREE block party concert series downtown with live music on Bank Street, street games, local eats, sidewalk sales and fun! Grab your chairs and join us downtown for an evening of safe and community-involved entertainment:
May 29, with a Rain Date of May 30: 100 Proof
+ Henna By Elyse
June 19, with a Rain Date of June 26: Anchor Management
+ 9-Hole Mini Golf
July 17, with a Rain Date of July 18: Nashville Drive
+ Cotton Candy Cart
August 21, with a Rain Date of Aug 28: Pop Rocks
+ Henna By Elyse
Sept 18, with a Rain Date of Sept 19: Struggle Monkey
Rock The Block
MERRYALL GALA 2025
Featuring Frank Brocklehurst & His Merry All-Star Band& & Local Favorite Guest Singers, Hosted by Karen Valentine
6:30-8 Small Bites & Cocktails - Dress: Black & White Attire Encouraged
8-10 Performance
Don't miss this special event featuring Frank Brocklehurst on bass, Lanny Ball on piano, John Keilty on guitar and Avery Collins on drums. This talented quartet of musicians will add their jazz chops to the music performed by: Felicia Michael, Nick Petrone, Violet Willows (Brianne Chasanoff & Mary Gardner) Missy Alexander and Bill Petkanas.
Doors Open for this Gala Event at 6:30 PM. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres served until the concert begins, at 8. Beer and wine available for suggested donation throughout evening.
Frank Brocklehurst and His Merry All-Star Band - Merryall Gala
Young students will learn theatre basics, as well as music and choreography. This class is highly recommended before participating in other TW Kids’ Programs.
Showcase Performance on June 7th.
Rising Stars: Introduction to Musical theatre (Ages 5-8)
Young students will learn theatre basics, as well as music and choreography. This class is highly recommended before participating in other TW Kids’ Programs.
Showcase Performance on June 7th.
Rising Stars: Introduction to Musical theatre (Ages 5-8)
Our annual Summer Great Works Concert will feature two of Mozart's most iconic choral works: his beloved Requiem and the lesser known Coronation Mass. The concert will take place on Sunday, June 8th, 2025, at 3 pm at St. John's Church in New Milford, CT.
The concert will be conducted by music director James Knox Sutterfield and will feature professional soloists and orchestra.
Parking is available on the street, behind the church, and at the public library across Whittlesey Avenue.
St. John’s in New Milford is wheelchair accessible at the side entrance on Whittlesey Ave. Accessible bathrooms are available on the same floor as the sanctuary.
Tickets are $25 in advance at https://kentsingers.com/tickets/ and $30 at the door. For further information contact tickets@kentsingers.org.
SUMMER GREAT WORKS CONCERT: MOZART'S REQUIEM AND CORONATION MASS
Join our community of artists! Bring a couple of songs, a story, a few poems, or your tight 8 minutes of standup to the Merryall Center's Open Mic. Signups start at 6:30 for our 7:00 open mic.
Merryall Center's Open Mic
Join our FREE block party concert series downtown with live music on Bank Street, street games, local eats, sidewalk sales and fun! Grab your chairs and join us downtown for an evening of safe and community-involved entertainment:
June 19, with a Rain Date of June 26: Anchor Management
+ 9-Hole Mini Golf
July 17, with a Rain Date of July 18: Nashville Drive
+ Cotton Candy Cart
August 21, with a Rain Date of Aug 28: Pop Rocks
+ Henna By Elyse
Sept 18, with a Rain Date of Sept 19: Struggle Monkey
Rock The Block
The New Milford Commission on the Arts hosts the third annual Arts Festival on the Green. It features over fifty fine artists and some artisans who exhibit their work from tents on the New Milford Green. Local dance, theatre, and music groups perform under a big tent near the bandstand. The event is free and runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
New Milford Arts Festival
The New Milford Commission on the Arts invites artists to submit their work for its third annual Arts Festival on the Green, taking place on June 28, 2025.
The Arts Festival is a juried fine art and artisan show that also features performances by local students, as well as dance, theater, and music groups.
Artists may submit up to five images. Registration deadline is May 31, 2025.
For more information and to apply, visit our website at artsnewmilfordct.org.
Call for Artists
Merryall Center is thrilled to welcome Joe Crookston to our stage. From touring with Gordon Lightfoot, headlining major US festivals, receiving Folk Alliance International "Album of the Year," releasing NINE BECOMES ONE (2023) to being named Folk Alliance International Artist-in- Resident, Joe is on fire. He's played with Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, David Francey, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, Judy Collins, and hundreds more.
Special Guest Opener - John John Brown
John John has been chosen as a Kerrville New Folk winner and an Emerging Artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. He is known for mixing storytelling songs with the visual arts creating “an imaginative musical performance woven into a unique visual experience.”
Joe Crookston with special guest opener John John Brown
Bring a couple of songs, a story, a few poems, or your tight 8 minutes of standup to the Merryall Center's Open Mic. Sign-ups at 6:30, performances start at 7:00.
Open Mic
Join our FREE block party concert series downtown with live music on Bank Street, street games, local eats, sidewalk sales and fun! Grab your chairs and join us downtown for an evening of safe and community-involved entertainment:
July 17, with a Rain Date of July 18: Nashville Drive
+ Cotton Candy Cart
August 21, with a Rain Date of Aug 28: Pop Rocks
+ Henna By Elyse
Sept 18, with a Rain Date of Sept 19: Struggle Monkey
Rock The Block
Deni Bonet and Chris Flynn are a New York-based Americana, folk-rock duo whose blend of voices, virtuoso violin, guitar, and humor have entertained and captivated audiences from Carnegie Hall to Mountain Stage to the White House.
"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts". So it is with Deni Bonet & Chris Flynn. As individual artists, they have more than made their mark in music. As a duo, they have created something extra, engaging and extremely entertaining. Bonet's voice and violin, and Flynn's guitar and voice, have echoed through the United Nations, Lincoln Center and Mountain Stage. They have shared stages with REM, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Warren Zevon, Sarah McLachlan, Alan Toussaint, and many others.
Deni Bonet and Chris Flynn
The Rough & Tumble are a folk/Americana duo, consisting of Mallory Graham & Scott Tyler. Forming in 2011, they spent 8 years full time in a 16ft camper with two big dogs, playing roughly 150 shows a year. At home at festivals, listening rooms, and house concerts across the country, their commanding stage presence, engaging performances and affecting songwriting won them official showcases at Folk Alliance International, NERFA, SERFA and the Independent Music Awards Americana Song of the Year for their song “The Hardest Part".
In 2023 they received recognition for their work in New England as recipients of Club Passim's Iguana Music Fund. Only This Far, the band's most notable work, was released in 2023 and has been described as "quality songs, well written, well played, well sung and arranged, and a pleasure from start to end." In November 2024, The Rough & Tumble released Hymns For My Atheist Sister and Her Friends To Sing Along To, a collection of deeply personal, unifying and uplifting, humanist gospel songs.
The Rough & Tumble
Bring a couple of songs, a story, a few poems, or your tight 8 minutes of standup to the Merryall Center's Open Mic.
Signups start at 6:30 for our 7:00 open mic. Two songs
or 8 minutes.
Open Mic Night
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